girlyswot

I think Mischief Night must have been limited to that part of Yorkshire. We did have a teacher give us anecdotes from Leeds about why it was a bad thing so it wasn't just limited to the Ripon-Harrogate area. It was on November 4th and kids just went and played tricks (mostly unpleasant ones) for the hell of it. No knocking on doors and warning people, they'd just wake up in the morning and find what had be broken or whatever. Occasionally the tricks would be funny and clever but usually they were just malicious. Of course, being November 4th, other people's bonfires were often set fire to. I hope it has died out completely, which is possible as it was such a localised event and never got coverage in the media.